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San Diego Padres 7 Texas Rangers 9
Status: Final
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Padres 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 7 10 1
Rangers 6 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 - 9 13 0
B8 TEX 7- 9 Langford homered to left center (430 feet).
T8 SD 7- 8 Sheets homered to right (391 feet).
B6 TEX 6- 8 Duran singled to center, Jung scored, Nimmo to
third.
B4 TEX 6- 7 Langford doubled to center, Jung scored,
Langford thrown out at third.
T4 SD 6- 6 France homered to center (409 feet).
B1 TEX 5- 6 Diaz reached on infield single to third, Burger
scored, Lopez to second.
B1 TEX 5- 5 Burger doubled to left, Duran scored and Osuna
scored.
B1 TEX 5- 3 Osuna doubled to right, Jung scored and Nimmo
scored, Duran to third.
B1 TEX 5- 1 Nimmo doubled to center, Pederson scored, Jung
to third.
T1 SD 5- 0 France homered to right (363 feet), Taylor
scored, Sheets scored and Bogaerts scored.
T1 SD 1- 0 Sheets singled to right, Tatis Jr. scored,
Taylor to third.
DeGrom has 9 Ks to win on his 38th birthday as Rangers get wild 9-7 victory over Padres
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Jacob deGrom struck out nine over six innings to win on his 38th birthday, even after giving up a grand slam to Ty France in the first, and the Texas Rangers beat the San Diego Padres 9-7 in a wild series opener Friday night.
There were only two umpires on the field for the top of the first when the Padres jumped ahead 5-0 on the slam by France , the first of his two homers in the game. By the time deGrom (6-4) returned to the mound for the second, he had a 6-5 lead.
France homered again leading off the fourth to tie the score at 6, but the Rangers went ahead to stay in the bottom half when Wyatt Langford hit an RBI double. He was thrown out trying for a triple on the hit that chased starter Randy Vasquez (6-5).
Langford also homered leading off the eighth.
Two-time Cy Young Award winner deGrom retired 16 of the last 19 batters he faced, even with an intentional walk, and finished with a season-high 106 pitches (70 strikes) to get his 102nd career win. The only hits in that closing span were France's second homer and his double in the sixth.
Jacob Latz got four outs for his 13th save in 15 chances.
The six-run Texas first included consecutive two-run doubles by Alejandro Osuna and Jake Burger before No. 9 batter Elias Diaz had the go-ahead RBI single.
That came after the Rangers allowed multiple runs in the first inning for the fourth game in a row all at home. They were just swept by Minnesota , which never trailed in that three-game series.
Gavin Sheets drove in the first San Diego run with a single. He added a solo homer in the eighth.
Because of travel issues, Emil Jimenez and John Bacon were the only umps who made it in time for first pitch. Gabe Morales and Mike Muchlinski joined them on the field in the middle of the first inning.
Walker Buehler (4-3, 4.14 ERA) starts for San Diego on Saturday, and Nathan Eovaldi (6-7, 4.23) goes for Texas. Both pitched in the 18-inning Game 3 of the 2018 World Series that the Dodgers won 3-2. Buehler started for Los Angeles, and Eovaldi was the ninth Boston pitcher, throwing the last six innings.
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This story has been corrected to show that Texas had consecutive two-run doubles, not two-out doubles, in the first inning.
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